| A | B |
|---|
| New national capital | New York, 1789 |
| Washington's Secretary of State | Thomas Jefferson |
| Washington's Secretary of the Treasury | Alexander Hamilton |
| Judiciary Act of 1789 | created the federal court system |
| Reason for creating a bill of rights | American's fear that a strong central government would lead to tyranny |
| Bill of Rights | First ten amendments ratified in 1791 |
| First Amendment | Fundamental freedoms: religion, speech, press, political assembly |
| Second Amendment | Ensured that each stated could form its own militia |
| Third Amendment | Protection from standing armies |
| Fourth - Eighth Amendments | Guaranteed fair treatment in legal and judicial proceedings |
| Ninth and Tenth Amendments | Reserved to the people or the states powers not given to the federal government |
| Eleventh Amendment | Ensured that citizens could not use federal courts to sue another states's government |
| Hamilton's financial policies | 1. to strengthen the nation against foreign enemies 2. to lessen the threat of disunion |
| Report on the Public Credit | Hamilton's review of the nation's Revolutionary Debt. Hamilton used it strengthen the nation's credit and to defer paying it's debt. |
| Bank of the United States | Hamilton's proposed bank to provide for international banking and printing of currency |
| Report on Manufactures | Hamilton's proposal for protective tariffs to encourage domestic manufacturing |
| Whiskey Rebellion | Civil insurrectin to protest Hamilton's excise tax (25%) on domestically produced whiskey |
| Creek Indians | 20,000 fiercely hostile Indians in Georgia |
| 1790 Treaty of New York | American settlers could occupy Georgia piedmont, but not other Creet territory |
| Citizen Genet | French minister sent to recruit American soldiers to conquer Spanish territories and attack Brittish shipping |
| Impressment | British navy forcibly enlisted Americans as the king's sailors |
| Treaty of Greenville | Opened Ohio to white settlement and temporarily ended Indian hostilities |
| Jay's Treaty | Britain agrees to withdraw troops from America, and America gains access to trading in West Indies (1795) |
| Pinckney's Treaty | (with Spain) gave westerners unrestricted, duty-free access to world markets via the Mississippi River (1796) |
| Federalists' fundamental assumption | Citizens' worth could be measured in terms of their money |
| 1796 Presidential candidates | Federalist: Vice Pres John Adams; Republican: Jefferson |
| XYZ Affair | French attempt to bribe Americans by promising through three unnamed agents (X, Y, and Z) that talks could begin after a monetary sum was received |
| Quasi-War | Undeclared Franco-American naval conflict in the Caribbean from 1798-1800 |
| Alien and Sedition Acts | Four laws which prevented wartime espionage, authorized the president to expel foreign residents, increased the residency requirement for US citizenship and blurred the distinction between sedition and legitimate political discussion. |
| Virginia and Kentucky resolutions | Written by Madison and Jefferson in response to Sedition Acts, proclaimed that state legislatures had the right to judge the constitutionality of federal actions |
| Interposition | States' authority to protect the liberties of their citizens |
| Fugitive Slave Law | Required judges to award possession of a runaway slave on a formal request by a master (1793) |
| Gabriel's Rebellion | planned insurrection in Richmond VA, led by Gabriel Prosser in which 35 slaves were executed |
